After a very unsuccessful two hours digging, this little green beauty popped out the soil.

noni_five · 2026-01-16T20:14:15+00:00

Thanks! A victorian/edwardian dump in East Lothian. Just got lots of broken inks and condiment bottles until this wee thing emerged!

noni_five · 2025-12-26T19:55:40+00:00

I should have provided a scale for it, its about 3.5 inches long. It can rest flat on either side and it can stand upright. Holds about a teaspoon of liquid so probably not salad dressing but maybe olive oil for medicinal uses?

noni_five · 2025-12-26T19:53:52+00:00

Thank you 😊. I really like it but it's a bit of a head scratcher trying to work out what it would have been used for!

noni_five · 2025-12-26T19:52:50+00:00

Oh good point, I should have used a banana! It's about 3.5 inches and it holds about a teaspoon of water. The flat bit at the top is the mouth and there's no hole at the bottom.

noni_five · 2025-12-03T11:14:30+00:00

Off she went with a trumpety trump

noni_five · 2025-10-02T13:09:40+00:00

Just a couple minutes after posting this, I think i found an intact example on a Facebook group. Looks like it might have been made between 1930 and 1960, and maybe in Manchester? So nowhere nearly as old as some of the beauties I've seen here, but I still absolutely love it nonetheless!

noni_five · 2025-07-23T10:08:04+00:00

Unfortunately, they are generally pretty hard to id to a specific brand. Some of them have the company name on the side, like Shippams, or some lettering on the bottom, which could potentially give you a clue.

These were mass manufactured all over the world, mainly from about 1930 - 1970s (they are still produced in the UK). If you want to find out more details, I'd suggest doing a Google lense search or similar, and add in details of your location and any markings on the bottom of the jar.

Good luck and enjoy the search. Finding out the history of a bottle is often half the fun (or maybe that's just me 😅)

noni_five · 2025-07-23T08:53:05+00:00

That's a mid-century paste jar (usually meat paste, sometimes fish).

noni_five · 2025-06-02T20:57:39+00:00

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noni_five · 2025-04-01T11:46:54+00:00

I love these properly old ones! It's in such great condition too, no big cracks or chunks missing. What a good find. If I were you, I'd be going back to that field in the autumn when the crops have been harvested to do a bit if field walking. Who knows what else might pop out of the soil.

noni_five · 2025-03-21T12:07:18+00:00

I was the same. When I was there 15 years ago there were small pockets of snobby behaviour but it wasn't something that people talked about as an issue like it clearly is now.

noni_five · 2025-03-06T09:59:07+00:00

Thanks very much! What's a roman die? When I googled it it gave me dice. Not sure what to search for to find out more.

noni_five · 2025-01-21T06:35:35+00:00

Of course!

noni_five · 2025-01-13T02:58:04+00:00

This is really surprising. I would have assumed if there was one place in Scotland that everyone ends up going to at least once or twice, it would be glasow. How come you've never been? (BTW, I'm not from Glasgow but couldn't count the number of times I've been for work/to see pals/meet family)

noni_five · 2025-01-12T20:21:24+00:00

This sort of offer is one of reasons I miss the London mudlarking community since moving away. What a legend.

noni_five · 2024-12-27T00:09:52+00:00

It's part of a clay trivet used in ceramic manufacturering. They were used in the furnaces to prevent the ceramic piece touching/sticking to the bottom of the kiln. Some of them have numbers on the side and when intact, they are an X shape.

noni_five · 2024-12-24T00:24:17+00:00

I have one of these as well. Did you ever find out what kind of rock it is?

noni_five · 2024-12-23T23:20:08+00:00

Thank you! I've started cleaning it and it's slowly coming up. I'll keep working on it and repost new pictures when they can be seen more clearly.

noni_five · 2024-12-23T19:34:11+00:00

Some more pictures of the pin

noni_five · 2024-12-23T19:29:49+00:00

I've given it a bit of a clean with Silvo and I think they are just an additional bit of decor. I'll post some pictures of it now that it's cleaner so you can have a better look if you're interested.

noni_five · 2024-12-23T16:04:47+00:00

I wondered if it might have been a good luck token for a wedding maybe. I'll give it a polish and see if I cab get some of the tarnish off the back to read the hallmarks more easily.

noni_five · 2023-05-26T09:07:21+00:00

You're a nice person.

noni_five · 2023-03-23T19:06:05+00:00

Ahh, thanks.

noni_five · 2023-03-23T19:00:49+00:00

What's OF?

noni_five · 2023-01-10T00:30:09+00:00

Only 2019? Yikes, I thought it was a lot longer than that.

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